Why is this article important? We’ve spent years studying gender differences in evaluations, feedback, and operative experience. But in Emergency Medicine—where procedural competence is core to training—we’ve had surprisingly little data on something fundamental: Do men and women residents actually get the same procedural experience? Because in EM, opportunity = experience = competence = confidence.

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